Pipelines in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan is one of the birthplaces of the oil industry and its history is linked to the fortunes of petroleum, with pipelines used from the late 19th century.

The total length of the country's oil pipeline is more than 1,500 kilometres (930 mi), with 80% of it located in the Absheron Economic Region.

Oil and gas field exploitation in Absheron and the Caspian Sea required the construction of new pipelines to Baku.

This pipeline transports Azerbaijani oil into the Russian Federation to the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.

[7] The Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline transports oil to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Caspian Sea for export to European markets through the Mediterranean.

The pipeline was planned to be 443 km (275 mi) long with a capacity of 30 billion cubic metres per year.

The planned pipeline would connect to TANAP at the Greece–Turkey border, passing through Greece, Albania, and crossing the Adriatic Sea to Italy.

The TAP project was chosen as the most direct way to export natural gas from Azerbaijan to European markets.